TAKS FLASH CARDS
Instructions
• TAKS Lesson Objective 1
– Copy the information from the powerpoint onto
index cards
– Term goes on the front of the card (no lines) and
definition goes on the back of the card (lines)
– If you do not have cards, you may write everything
on paper
1215
• The Magna Carta was signed
– It limited the power of the king
– Protected the rights of nobles
1607
• Jamestown was founded in North America
1776
• The Declaration of Independence was signed
1787
• The Constitutional Convention met
1803
• The Louisiana Purchase
1861-1865
• The American Civil War
1861
• Attack on Ft. Sumter started the Civil War
1862
• Emancipation Proclamation
– Lincoln announced slaves would be free by the
end of the year
1863
• The Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg
Address
1865
• Confederates surrendered at Appomattox
Courthouse to end the Civil War
George Washington
• Comander of the Continental Army
• Led the Constitutional Convention
• First President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson
• Author of the Declaration of Independence
• 3rd President of the U.S.
• Ambassador to France
Thomas Paine
• Wrote Common Sense
– Essays regarding the need for the Revolutionary
War
King George III
• King of England during the American
Revolution
Robert E. Lee
• Commander of the Confederate Army (South)
during the Civli War
Ulysses S. Grant
• Commander of the Union Army (North) during
the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
• Elected in 1862, he was the president of the
United States during the Civil War
Nullification Crisis
• Challenged the right of states to void a federal
law
Bill of Rights
• First 10 amendments to the Constitution
• Guaranteed individual freedoms
Stamp Act
• Placed a tax on all printed materials
Proclamation of 1763
• Stated colonists could not move west of the
Appalachian Mountains
Boston Massacre
• British troops fired on a crowd of colonists
• Contributing factor in the Revolutionary War
Lexington and Concord
• The Shot heard ‘round the world
• The first shots of the American Revolution
were fired
Saratoga
• Turning point of the American Revolution
• Convinced the French to help the Americans
Yorktown
• Final battle of the American Revolution
– Cornwallis (British General) surrendered
Appomattox Courthouse
• Lee surrendered to Grant there to end the
Civil War
MORE FLASH CARDS – World History
1492
• Columbus “discovered” the New World
1066
• The Battle of Hastings
1789
• The French Revolution
1914-1918
• World War I
1939-1945
• World War II
The Treaty of Tordesillas
• Divided the “New World” between Spain and
Portugal
Monroe Doctrine
• Closed the Western Hemisphere to European
colonization and kept Europe out of western
affairs
The Neoloithic Revolution
• The shift from hunting and gathering to
systematic agriculture
The Industrial Revolution
• Movement of the 1700s and early 1800s in
which machines were used in factories to
mass produce items
• It brought a shift from rural to urban living